![]() ![]() He's competing against a fellow journalist, M. Kevin O'Connell enters the story as he reports on a supposed curse on a mummy in the British Museum. Amelia accepts, if only to instill some higher principles in the obviously spoiled children. Upon their arrival, Amelia finds that her despised brother James wants to dump his two children, Percy and Violet, on the Emersons for the summer. Immediately after their adventure in Lion in the Valley, the Emersons return home to England for the summer of 1896, as is their custom. ![]() The title of the book comes from the ancient Egyptian Hymn to Osiris from the Eighteenth Dynasty: "His sister was his protector / She who drives off the foe / Who foils the deeds of the disturber / By the power of her utterance." Plot summary This is the only book in the series which takes place entirely in England.Įxplanation of the novel's title Deeds of the Disturber is the fifth in a series of historical mystery novels, written by Elizabeth Peters and featuring fictional sleuth and archaeologist Amelia Peabody. ![]()
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